Dave O’Callaghan,  Senior Vice President of Global Channels & Alliances at VMware has agreed to be a keynote speaker at the third annual Cloud Channel Summit on Monday, November 4 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. VMware has also become a Marquee sponsor of this year’s executive forum.

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Dave joined VMware as its “Channel Chief” in June 2013. Previously, he led O’Callaghan Capital, a go-to-market consultancy for high tech companies, and served as VP of Worldwide Distribution and VP of Sales for the Commercial West Area at Cisco Systems. Prior to working at Cisco, Dave was VP of the Western Region at Hitachi Data Systems. He has also served as a Commissioner on the Governor’s Commission on Science and Technology in Colorado, and is a Board Member for Colorado State University’s Industry Advisory Board.

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While many industry observers were speculating last month about what drove Steve Ballmer to announce his resignation as CEO at Microsoft, SugarCRM was busy pulling in another round of funding to help fuel its continued growth into new segments of the market. The latest equity investment is not only an indicator of the growing demand for CRM alternatives in general but is also another example of the growing acceptance of open source-based enterprise applications in particular.

The source of the new round of SugarCRM funding is almost as important as the amount of the investment. Click here to read THINKstrategies’ perspective in Sandhill.com regarding the industry implications of this news.

Brian Matsubara, Head of Global Technology Alliances at Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Mike Desai, Senior Director of Global Business Development & Strategy at Ping Identity have joined the growing number of leading industry executives participating in the third annual Cloud Channel Summit on Monday, November 4 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Ping Identity has also become the latest sponsor of this year’s executive forum.

Click here and save $100 by registering now for the Summit!

Brian Matsubara is returning to the peer-to-peer networking event after participating in the first Summit in 2011, and will participate in an industry roundtable session focused on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) partnering opportunities being chaired by Andy Schroepfer, Founder & CEO, Big Cloud Sales.

Mike Desai will join Rory Cameron, SVP, Corporate Development & Emerging Platforms at CallidusCloud and Jonathan Sass, Category Manager – Cloud Services and Software at Spiceworks in a roundtable session examining partnering opportunities in … Read More »

The deadline for submitting speaker proposals for the third annual Cloud Channel Summit is this Friday, September 6. Click here to submit a speaker proposal and here to learn more about this year’s Summit.

The Cloud Channel Summit is the leading executive forum and peer-to-peer networking event focused on building successful partnerships in the Cloud. The Summit is scheduled for Monday, November 4, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Register now for the Summit and save $100!

This year’s summit includes keynote presentations by Tim FitzGerald, VP, DataCenter & Cloud Technology Solutions Practices at Avnet Technology Solutions, Americas, and Ron Huddleston, Senior Vice President of ISVs and Channels, Salesforce.com. Click here to see the executives who have already confirmed their participation in this year’s Summit.

There will also be industry roundtable discussion sessions focused on new partnering opportunities associated with the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Big Data, and … Read More »

AppDirect and Progress Software are returning as sponsors of the third annual Cloud Channel Summit, the leading executive forum focused on building successful partnerships in the Cloud, and you can save $100 by registering now!

AppDirect’s President and CEO, Daniel Saks, will participate in an industry roundtable regarding the growing role of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) marketplaces, and Colleen Smith, VP of SaaS/Cloud at Progress Software, will join the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) roundtable at the peer-to-peer networking event on Monday, November 4 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.

Colleen and Daniel will join other key executives from leading Cloud solution providers, major software and technology vendors, and innovative channel organizations in highly interactive sessions examining partnering opportunities and best practices in the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Big Data, and Small/Med-Size Business (SMB) segments of the Cloud marketplace. Click here to see the executives who have already confirmed their participation in this year’s Summit.

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Register now to join a growing number of key Cloud Computing industry executives speaking at the third annual Cloud Channel Summit on Monday, November 4 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, and save $100!

Executives from leading Cloud solution providers, major software and technology vendors, and innovative channel organizations will participate in highly interactive sessions examining partnering opportunities and best practices in the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Big Data, and Small/Med-Size Business (SMB) segments of the Cloud marketplace. Click here to see the executives who have already confirmed their participation in this year’s Summit.

The Summit will also include a “Speed Networking” session to give attendees additional time to meet others interested in exploring new partnership opportunities. Click here to see the agenda for this year’s event.

We are also pleased to have AppDirect, CallidusCloud, Corent Technologies, CorSource Technology Group, Oracle, Salesforce.com and SoftServe returning as sponsors supporting this year’s peer-to-peer, executive networking forum. The Summit is also being supported … Read More »

THINKstrategies, Inc. announced today that Samanage has been named a winner of the Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Award. This program promotes the measurable business benefits delivered by today’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions.

The BoSS Awards is an ongoing program administered by THINKstrategies’ Cloud Computing Showplace to recognize SaaS companies that are delivering measurable business benefits to specific user organizations. These benefits can include increased sales, lower costs, higher customer satisfaction, faster operations and greater profitability.

Samanage is a leading provider of Cloud-based IT service desk and asset management software that helps companies govern their IT environments. Samanage empowers organizations with an innovative IT service management (ITSM) platform that automates and simplifies daily IT tasks, including problem and change management, hardware and software tracking, a contract repository, and inventory risk detection. Samanage’s capabilities help IT departments deliver fast, quality service while reducing their workloads.

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THINKstrategies believes IT managers and their corporate counterparts should consider building internal appstores to counteract the challenges of the ‘Bring Your Own Device’ (BYOD) phenomenon. A growing array of Cloud-based marketplace platforms have emerged that can make it even easier to pursue this idea and regain control over renegade end-user app purchases. The tremendous success of the Apple, Google and Amazon appstores among consumers has encouraged their business alter egos, the prosumers, to seek new business applications from the same sources, causing a ‘Bring Your Own App’ (BYOA) trend to emerge. Click here to read our views in Datamation.

The agenda for this year’s Cloud Channel Summit on Monday, November 4 has been designed to focus on the rapidly evolving Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Big Data and Small-/Mid-Size Business (SMB) partner opportunities in the Cloud. Register now and save $100 on the conference registration fee!

The third annual Summit will once again take place at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, and this year will include a special “Speed Networking” session to give attendees additional time to meet others interested in establishing new partnerships to expand their Cloud ecosystems.

Click here to see the full Summit agenda, and here to see the speakers who have already committed to participate in this year’s event.

CallidusCloud, Corent Technologies, CorSource Technology Group, Oracle, Salesforce.com and SoftServe are returning as sponsors supporting this year’s peer-to-peer, executive networking forum. Click here to learn more about the sponsors, and here to see the Summit partners.

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Creating an in-house app store filled with approved apps that employees can easily acquire and corporate IT departments can effectively administer is a perfect response to the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and Bring Your Own Apps (BYOA) trend. A well-architected app store can replace the antiquated service catalogs of the past. It could provision the best apps available, monitor their usage, manage fees, and help CIOs predict further app requirements. Click here to read THINKstrategies’ perspective in E-Commerce Times regarding how CIOs can overcome the BYOA dilemma.